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Elder Carson Justin Burnside

Brazil Sao Paulo Interlagos Mission

Rua Comendador Elias Zarzur, 365

Santo Amaro

04736-000 Sao Paulo - SP

Brazil

Monday, September 21, 2015

Portuguese or English??

OH MY GOSH! Slowly but surely things are getting better!
Everyday Portuguese gets a little bit better, it still frustrates the crap out
of me when I can´t say what I want to but things are better!! So 3 stories for
y' all!

1) I made a contact in english with someone on the
street.... like what? I guess he saw an american and wanted to talk english. We
talked about church for a second and then I started talking about the Gospel of
Jesus Christ pamphlet I had in my bag, but that is not the best part. I started
talking and every other word I wanted to say was in freaking Portuguese ... It was
like " This is a pamphlet about the evangelho, sorry gospel, of Jesus
Christ. Fala sobre, sorry it talks about, how famìlias can be together forever
and the cinco prinipios of the gospel. Primero fé, second, repentance, batismo,
domde espirito sant, and perservering until the end." Oh my gosh I was so
mad, I can not talk fast in english anymore without saying a word or two in
Portuguese...

2) I rode in a car with a Brazilian and I was scared to
death .... I felt like I was on a roller coaster through the favelas, and It
felty like I was in a movie, He was taking turns super fast, almost
hitting people, and speeding down little alley ways, scariest drive of my life

3) This last week, we baptized 3 people, and I was able to
Baptize a man name Sergio, Maybe the kindest man alive. He was prepared for me
and my companion, He accepted the gospel so easily, and he will be blessed a
ton!

This week has been great, Portguese is being built line upon
line, and It is my goal to know what is being said all the time in 2 months. Eu
amo vocês!